Guardians of Religion Organization

The Guardians of Religion Organization was a Salafi jihadist insurgent group in Syria which was founded on 27 February 2018. The group was affiliated with al-Qaeda, and its leadership included veteran al-Qaedans Abu Humam al-Shami, Saif al-Adel, and Sami al-Oraydi. It had between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters, and it was opposed to the fighting between Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Liberation Front. By October 2018, its hisbah religious police were actively driving around the city of Saraqeb and calling on people to observe sharia law.